installing new kernel broke my system
while recompiling the kernel I managed to screw up a bunch of my access permissions. Nothing is working right. The problem, is that I cannot find any sign of a problem, so I'm not even sure what to check. Bottom line, there were only three commands run as root before the problem occoured.
Code:
1. sudo make modules-install I'm sorry about the vagueness of this question. Further details an be found in my first post which I have been having trouble getting anyone to respond to. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...rs-4175468577/ |
It might help to know what the errors are that you get.
Also, it is possible that the crash corrupted some files, depending on when/where it crashed. One of the problems I have with systemd based systems is that it seems trivial to corrupt the handling of a login - and once it is f*d up, it stays f*d up. |
Originally I wasn't getting any errors. I simply couldn't log in from SLiM. it immediately returned to the prompt. No errors.
I was still able to logon via startx. As I am running like this I am starting to notice other odd problems. 1. I got a popup warning randomly at some point. I don't remember exactly what it said, but it led me to believe there was a permissions problem with power management 2. I'm getting weird messages about "to many symbolic links" if I try to extract a tar.gz or tar.bz2 file without decompressing it first. 3. I'm having trouble compiling anything. I get the same symbolic link error Code:
dan@waldorf:~$ echo 'int main() {return 0;}'> test.cpp |
You might do a "find" looking for all symbolic links. It sounds like one of them is either pointing to itself or to its immediate parent...
A suggested starting point would be to look at the directories listed in your PATH environment variable. The reason I say "starting point" is that it is possible for it to be in a subdirectory of something there. |
I gave up. backed up my home directory and reformatted. without a working compiler I couldn't even fix my kernel.
Oh well. problem solved, sort of. |
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